Greta Thunberg is Time's 2019 Person of the Year
Source: NBC News
Greta Thunberg, the soft-spoken Swedish teen who became a global conscience for climate change and environmental activism, has been named Times Magazines Person of the Year for 2019.
The magazine announced 16-year old Thunberg as its choice Wednesday exclusively on "TODAY."
"She became the biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet this year, coming from essentially nowhere to lead a worldwide movement," Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal told "TODAY," adding that Thunberg is the magazine's youngest choice ever to be named Person of the Year.
Thunberg quickly bloomed into one of the world's most notable and youngest climate change activists, sparking a collective movement to fight climate change after protesting alone outside the Swedish parliament during school hours on Fridays when she was 15. The teen held up a now universally recognized hand-painted sign that read skolstrejk för klimatet, which translates to School strike for the Climate.
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handmade34
(22,758 posts)lastlib
(23,311 posts)Make America Greta Again!
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,949 posts)Not Trump?
He'll have to keep using his fake Time cover.
Lochloosa
(16,071 posts)It sends a great message to kids that they can make a difference.
lamp_shade
(14,846 posts)lark
(23,160 posts)So glad they made an aspirational choice about someone who is working hard as she can to change our future for the better.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Sorry, not sorry, Dump, you lose again!
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)Magoo48
(4,721 posts)TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)What Trump as usual does not understand is that this selection is not necessarily a praise:
"TIME's Person of the Year is bestowed by the editors on the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year."
This tiny girl has carried her position with grace.
llmart
(15,556 posts)I just wish Du'ers wouldn't start so many different threads on the same subject.
progree
(10,924 posts)and certainly the OP qualifies for this and the other LBN rules.
As the message box says when one begins a post in LBN :
In other words, most of us don't have the luxury of all the time in the world to read through all of Latest Threads or a hundred different forums, so we rely on LBN and its many volunteer posters and hosts, to provide a forum for this purpose.
Edited to Add: I agree in general though -- before I start an OP post in a non-LBN forum, and I think there's a good chance that others may have already posted -- I do a quick search. If I do find other postings on the subject, I ask myself do we really need another thread on it? . (And of course LBN rules forbid posting an OP that is a "duplicate" of another earlier LBN post)
Baitball Blogger
(46,764 posts)Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Probably ranks as high with me as any pick they've made over the years
I think she's wonderful and we're blessed to have her for this cause
mahannah
(893 posts)I still believe the biggest danger is not inaction, the real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening when in fact almost nothing is being done apart from clever accounting and creative PR. - Thunberg
olddad65
(599 posts)Aristus
(66,468 posts)n/t
brooklynite
(94,757 posts)In a tweet, Trump Jr. mocked the 16-year-old activist as "a teen being used as a marketing gimmick," saying pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong deserved the honor.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)that if we want his opinion, we'll take his feet out of his mouth, first. Then ask. BTW- Jr., don't hold your breath.
LeftTurn3623
(628 posts)I love it!